Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-03-26

\ Mr.. Blair has replaced Nate Salisbury
in the "TroubadOr" company.
Charles II. HOyt rode the elk in Column
bus, Ohio, last Sunday evening.
A cold spring swells up directly under the
stage of the New York Academy of Music.
The Macon (Ga.) telegraph announces
Frederick Warde as Edwin Forrest the
Second"
Nine. Bernhardt occupies the SWEETEST
suite of apartments at the Hoffman in New
York City.
The Buffalo Bill Wild West sails for
England Thursday afternoon. March Slst.
al o'clock.
1t Is no longer the Hon" William +.
Cody. but Colonel" Buffalo Bill in a
dress suit is very queer sight.
W. J. Scanlan is acting in the large cities
of Pennsylvania this week in SHANE ma
Lawn" and is attracting large audiences.
Bernhardt gives the New Workers the only
genuine, simon pure. dyed-in-the-woOl.
patent back-action TheGdord next week at
the Star theater.
There is very good reason to believe that
Mr.. Marcus Mayer will be Mrs. James
Brown Pctter's manager when she comes
to this country next season.
A journalist in New York is utilizing the
mysterious horror of the Denmead hut in
New Brunswick, n. j.. for the hinge
around which melodrama of today is to
swing.
Jennie Dunn has become Mrs. Ezra F.
Kendall. Eight years ago Arthur and
Jennie Dunn. then a pair of kids" Were
the midget Deadeye and Josephine in Hav
erly's Juvenile Pinafore.
4 theatrical manager lately deceased.
lef, the following memorandum in his note
book: In all my forty years experience.
| never knew a prima donna to be sick or
to have cOld-on the day she was to get
benefit"
Agnes Herndon will probably produce
new play from the French, called "A Won
derful Woman. before the close of the sea
son. In the chief scene Miss Herndon
will fight duel with the villain of the
piece, using swords.
Jennie Yramans has Just received
present in the shape of a banjo ornamented
with silver and pearls. A handsome case
accompanied it. The gift is anonymous.
and the recipient cannot even guess at the
name of her admirer.
MI. Joll n. stevens says tnat 'faSSlnK
Shadows is not As Russian play as he
wanted it to be-, because the scene painters
did not do their end. Most dramatistS now
adayS rely more on the work of the scene
painter than they do on the product of their
brains. Canvass plays the star part in
"Harbor Lights" 'HOodman Blind"
"Alone in London, The World" "Theo-
dora" and dozens of others.
Frederick Wardes southern tour has been
a social as well As an artistic and financial
triumph. At Macon, Ga, Mr.. Warde and
his management were the guests of the
mayor at banquet given in honor of the
tragedan, at which thirty Of the most
prominent gentlemen of the city were pres
ent. Major and Mrs. Ross rendered Mr.
Warde reception at their home the follow
ing day, which proved one of the most
brilliant social events of the season.
Robert Il. Mantell will be seen in three
or four new parts next season. First, in
new play now being written for him by Mr..
Keller, the scene of which will br laid in
Mexico although most of the characters
will be Americans. The young actor will
also appear as Othello, making him young
man Of thirty-two, and depicting him as a
Venetian: in a reconstructed version of the
Marble Heart" as Rover in "Wild Oats. "
and possibly as Romeo in Romeo and
Juliet"